{"nrhp_refnum":"91001706","name":"Cambria City Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Broad St., Tenth Ave. and the Conemaugh R.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Johnstown","county":"Cambria County","state":"PA","lat":40.34151144000006,"lon":-78.93024254139227,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","European","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cambria City Historic District is a neighborhood of vernacular working-class houses, a small business district and a group of churches on the south bank of the Conemaugh River in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Most of its buildings were constructed between 1890 and 1920, following the 1889 flood.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district is significant for its ethnic and cultural history, its architecture and its industrial associations, covering the period 1854 to 1941. It was laid out to house laborers for the Cambria Iron Company, and later immigrant groups from south and east central Europe built churches, schools and associations there. Its vernacular housing and intact urban grid are presented as the best preserved of their kind in the Johnstown area.","narrative":"Cambria City is a dense urban neighborhood of two-story vernacular houses built on a grid three blocks wide and ten blocks long in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Cambria Iron Company's David and James P. McConaughy laid out its lots in 1853 for workers at the nearby ironworks, and the street grid was rebuilt after the 1889 flood. Most of the houses were built between 1890 and 1920 for mill and mine employees, and they are typically two-bay singles or four-bay doubles set close together. The district contains ten churches, most built between 1901 and 1922, which reflect the successive waves of immigrants from south and east central Europe. Five of them were designed by architects including Walter Myton and John T. Comes, and they display Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance and Byzantine styles. The neighborhood is also associated with the Germania Brewery of 1907, the 1914 Minersville Bridge, and the Mayer slaughterhouse of 1908. It is regarded as the best preserved example of a working-class ethnic neighborhood tied to the Cambria Iron Company in the Johnstown area.","period_of_significance":"1854-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular urban house form; Second Empire; Queen Anne; Victorian Gothic Revival; Romanesque Revival; Second Renaissance Revival; Byzantine Revival; Arts and Crafts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The district contains 263 buildings and one structure, of which 66 are noncontributing. Many houses have synthetic siding and lost original details after floods, and in the 1960s the city redevelopment authority demolished most of the area west of Broad Street except the former Germania Brewery.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.497847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/91001706.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001706/df83750a57-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001706/df83750a57-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"Generic1139, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambria_City_Historic_District_120_Chestnut_St.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995988","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_City_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5025251"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/cambria-county/cambria-city-historic-district-91001706/"}